Don't Stick Your Head in your primary fermenter and take a deep breath!

[Bewbzout]

They should recommend doing this as a first time brewer. Once you do it, you wont do it again.

 

[Rev2010]

They should recommend doing this as a first time brewer. Once you do it, you wont do it again.

Not necessarily true. I learned this early on and yesterday when bottling my pumpkin I totally forgot and took a wiff after taking off the lid LOL, I guess twice is the charm


Rev.

 

[BBL_Brewer]

I always give it a sniff after I rack just to make sure no funky odors before I toss a keg in the fridge. No burn this way as a lot of the CO2 has already disapated.

 

[Kosch]

Ah ha, glad I'm on the only one who almost passed out in his fermenter! I used a bucket my first batch, I think that's way more dangerous than a carboy, you can get your whole head down in there

 

[wheathead]

And to think, it only took me three time to realize to take smaller inhales.

 

[SwampassJ]

Nothing like dipping your head into the freezer with a flash light to check the krausen height on 2 carboys.

 

[rico567]

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EDIT: I can't help but wonder how many brewers are going to take a big huff of co2, simply because we told them not to. lol.

Personally, I like hitting myself in the head with a hammer, because it feels so good when I stop.........

 

[ChrisRC1985]

So glad I came across this thread.
I have a 'Blow Siphon'(I believe is the name) So right before I take a massive exhale, my mouth is already on the blow-hole, and I take a massive inhale, to acquire the needed breathe...HOLY SH!T...Right the lungs it went, suffice to say clearly knocked me on my ass lol.
Glad to see I am not the only one!

 

[SwampassJ]

my mouth is already on the blow-hole

 

[ChrisRC1985]

Dont knock it till you try it!

And I agree. Swamp Ass is this worst!

 

[Paramecium]

It really is a bad idea to try this. Especially with a ferm chamber, you quite literally could die. If the concentration is high enough to knock you out and you fall forward into the chamber you could suffocate. I have seen in my line of work what can happen when someone accidentally enters an inert environment. Those are some of the worst accidents because it just looks like they passed out. There are plenty of cases of multiple fatalities from people going into a vessel or room that has no oxygen to save someone else.

 

[krduckman]

Well I never did this but I guess i'll try and get my dad to try it.

That's exactly what I was thinking. I almost feel like I wont get the entire experience of brewing until I've tried it at least once.

 

[Whippy]

I'll pass, thanks. I enjoy the smell of the fermentation, but I never had the desire to huff CO2. I don't want to get the beer bends or anything like that. I destroyed way too many brain cells when I was younger, now I have reached conservation mode.

 

[Vuarra]

CO2 is an asphyxiant. It displaces O2 in the lungs, which causes you to suffocate. It is also heavier than air.

It also dissolves in water, creating carbonic acid. This is what makes your delicate parts (eyes, nostrils) burn. I strongly suggest you clear your keezers and other fermentation keeping equipment of gases before you move in there.

I'm not your big brother, but we should all be our brothers' keeper.

 

[moose123]

hurts so bad the funny part is i didnt learn the first time it took a second was just so excited to smell my beer

 

[TimT]

Sticking your nose in a carboy can be bad...

EDIT: I can't help but wonder how many brewers are going to take a big huff of co2, simply because we told them not to. lol.

Did it tonight Quite the burning sensation in the nose.

 

[drawdy10]

yeah did this off a 46 gallon fermentor once, ouch....

 

[ThruBrew]

Yep did the same tonight. Burned the hell out of my nose. At least my beer is fermenting nicely.

 

[BOBrob]

This should not be seen as a joke guys. those little bubbles are known as a SILENT KILLER. People die every day from it. Your swamp cooler is a death trap, and the bucket is a smaller version of it. I go through confide space training every year, and have seen the sleeping victims first hand . Listen to "Paramecium" he is serious. If as a joke you have a friend with lung problems take a sniff and its his last, you will not forget the look you get. On the topic of brewing ...... drink the vodka from the air lock instead.

 

[BOBrob]

Sorry ... its confined space training. Thats a space you can enter, but an environment you can not survive in without proper ventilation.